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How to export Excel data (selection or sheets) to Text files in Excel?

If you are required to deliver a workbook in the format of text file, you need to convert the workbook into text files. And this article will introduce you two methods to export Excel data into text files easily.

Export one single sheet to text file in Excel

By default, the Excel data will be saved as workbooks in the format of .xlsx. However, we can export a worksheet of existing workbook as text files with the Save As feature. Please do as follows:

1. Shift to the worksheet which you will export to text file, and click File (or Office button) > Save As.

2. In the opening Save As dialog box, select the destination folder you will save the exported text file into, name the file in the File name box, and then select the Unicode Text (*.txt) from the Save as type drop down list. See screenshot:

3. Then it will pop up two warning dialog boxes asking you to export only active worksheet as text file and leave out any incompatible features with text file. Click OK button and Yes button successively.

Then the data in the active worksheet are exported as a new text file.

Note: the Save As command is only able to export data of active worksheet as a text file. If you want to export all data of the whole workbook, you need to save each worksheet as a text file individually.

Export selection (or one column) to text file with VBA

The following VBA code also can help you to export the selected range data (for example one column) to the text file, please do as this:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

3. Then press F5 key to run this code. And then select the data range that you want to export in the popping up dialog box, and click the OK button, see screenshot:

4. And now in another Save As dialog box, please specify a name for this text file and a folder to put this file into, and click the Save button.

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The Save As command can export all data in the active worksheet as text. What if exporting all data of specified inactive worksheets, or part of the data in a worksheet as a text file? Kutools for Excel's Export Range to File utility can help us export and save the data in selection as a text file easily..

Export multiple sheets to separate text files in Excel

Sometimes you may need to export multiple worksheets to multiple text files in Excel. The Save As feature may be a little tedious! Do not worry! Kutools for Excel’s Split Workbook utility provide Excel users an easy workaround to export multiple worksheets to many separate text files with several clicks.

2. In the opening Split Workbook dialog box, please do as follows: (1) Check the worksheets you will export to separate text files in the Workbook name section; (2) Check the Specify save format option, and then select the Unicode Text (*.txt) from below drop down list, see left screenshot: (3) Click the Split button.

3. And then in the popping up Browse For Folder dialog box, select the destination folder you will save exported text files into, and click the OK button.

So far each specified worksheet has been exported as a separate text file and saved into the specified folder.

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and have working, but i need to savea column with cells that contain the function"concatenate", and when i play the vba code, and i save the .TXT file, only what appears it's #REF. how can i to fix it? cause i need the data that appears on that cells?

Thanks for the awesome piece of VBA code to export data to a text file. I have used your code with some of my own. The data I am dealing with is extremely line-length specific and after the macro has run, the text file contains some double quotation marks " at random places, which was never present in my data before. I have tried adding a code line to remove this character at various stages but that does not seem to be working. I am aware that I can manually remove this but would like to resolve it in the VBA code.

Hi Harish,
For removing a specified character in bulk, you can replace the character with nothing.
Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog box, type the specified character in the Find what box, and type noting in the replace with box.

3/2You might also note that you don't need to specify the wb prefix once you've .Add ed the workbook since it becomes active. Specifying wb might or might not be more efficient but it can be omitted from some commands. Actually I entirely scrapped the variable wb; I just go Workbooks.Add, and use ActiveWorkbook when needed. (As you are suppressing ScreenUpdating it wouldn't be obvious to some that wb is Active. Tip for beginners (and higher): I always, always develop with ScreenUpdating and DisplayAlerts as True, and when done with development, I consider toggling them off for some passage of code.)

2/2- vbYesNoCancel msgboxes and Booleans to indicate whether to export all, selection, or a user specified range- a static String for the prior range address- if len(that static)1 then I set WorkRng=activesheet.UsedRange (You can't copy multiple areas with a single copy, though with a little work you could walk the areas and copy them piecemeal.)- Idiotic Microsoft does not save off empty rows at the start and the bottom of the saved range, and does not save off empty columns at the leftmost and the rightmost of the saved range. When I detect that (UsedRange is not row 1, col. 1, or xlLastCell is not completely lower-right) I msgbox to ask user if they want to plug A1 or the lower right cell.- Then I decided to preemptively address the upper left issue by inserting a row and setting A1 to be text like "The following is for range "- I close with activeworkbook.close SaveChanges:=False- Long time habit since I'm an angry proponent of cleaning up (and the world is a sad place thanks to irresponsible programmers who shirk that responsibility when it matters), I set WorkRng = Nothing on the way out :)

I am a serious coder and I want to inform you that the VBA code here is outstanding. It's clean, and not one line too much, or one too few. It's exemplary coding for demonstration of the process.

I'll also mention that as I extensively researched solutions for export of selection, you and only one other person suggested dropping the range into a temp new workbook. All other answers were painfully manually, walking through cell by cell. Even Chip's code is much longer and runs slower (but intentionally so, as it is much more flexible - specifiable delimiters, etc.)

Just for your amusement, I made some very minor tweaks but otherwise nearly lifted the code word for word because it basically dropped right into a very intricate and specialized application. Some of these tweaks are something I'm sure you do in practice, but they add lines of code (e.g. error checking) so showing them on this webpage would have muddied your display so that the essential elements of processing would have been cumbersome for readers to follow along. Anyway: (see part 2)

Export should be done through a click button., which means when I click on export button the data on the sheet I calculated today should go and save on the Summary excel sheet row1, next day a new excel sheet report calculated should go and save on the Summary excel sheet row2 and so on..

Hi!The cells I want to export as a text-file refer to other cells and contain if-codes. This means that when I export I don't get the number-values, but "N/A". Do you know how i can fix this?Thank you.